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Buying items on line while traveling
Yahoo Message Number: 47373
I am a few digests behind, so perhaps this subject has been covered, but mail ordering on line while on the move is quite possible by asking Fed Ex or UPS to simply hold the package at their office nearest where you intend to be, and then swing by and pick it up.  ;->

It is also worthwhile to call your credit card company to tell them what you are doing so that they don't deny the charge because of the peculiar circumstances.  Otherwise, they send a note to your billing address, which you might not get for quite some time.
Can you tell this has happened to us?

Virtual hugs,

Judie SKP #17907
Re: Buying items on line while traveling
Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 47381
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mail ordering on line while on the move is quite possible by asking Fed Ex or UPS to simply hold the package at their office nearest where you intend to be, and then swing by and pick it up.  ;->

Judie, could you expand on this please?  I order quite a bit of stuff online -- during the winter when we're in Quartzsite.

Most places have both a billing address section and a shipping address section.  So, if you're on the road, what do you use as a shipping address?  Can you use the address of a FedEx or UPS office?  If so, how do you find those addresses?  And how do you instruct the company you're ordering from to tell FedEx or UPS to hold the package for pickup?

I've only ordered a couple of things online when we've been traveling and had it sent to our mail service address -- which means, of course, that we have to pay additional $$ to have it shipped again.

Thanks.

Linda & Earl

2004 23.5'  Red TK
From Quartzsite, AZ
Linda Hylton
Re: Buying items on line while traveling
Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 47414
When you are ordering on line, you first ascertain the company's shipping method, then just put in an ad hoc address, using the address of the FedEx or UPS store, which you have gotten from the shipping company's online presence.  Check under "locations", or just send a note to "Contact Us", or call them on the telephone, and tell them what you want to do, and ask for guidance as to the closest office in the area where you intend to be.

Then, in the merchandise order area of the vendor of the goods you are ordering, assuming that there is a "special instructions" block to fill in, tell them what you are doing.  There is usually, at the very least, an extra "address" line where you could write PLEASE HOLD FOR PICK UP in large letters.  You might want to add CHECK FOR IDENTIFICATION to keep an employee, or anyone else, from adding it to their personal inventory unexpectedly.

If something is to be sent USPS, then you could have it sent to "General Delivery" at a post office in the smallest town you can find in the area where you will be.  This is to assure that there will be only one post office that it can be sent to.  It might be worth paying a bit extra for a confirmation signature upon package pick up.

If there is no place to convey this information, I would call the mail order place and tell them what you want done.  In fact, that is a pretty good idea under any peculiar circumstances like this . .
. just to alert them that it is being done, and is not a scam of some sort.  They are in business to sell items, so have the incentive to allow you to purchase their goods in any way that is possible for you to do it.

Best not to overlook calling the credit card company as well.
A bit of preventative precaution pays big dividends in aggravation avoided.  We have a permanent note of several common "alternate" addresses to our regular mailing address (in Florida), and a further note that we will advise if any other address is to be used for shipment.  If a several thousand dollar ATV is purchased for delivery to Moab, Utah, it is likely to raise a flag on our account!  ;->

A few pre-ordering precautions can stave off immeasurable aggravation.  I detest aggravation; particularly the kind that can be avoided.

Virtual hugs,

Judie SKP #17907
 
Buying items on line while trave
Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 47424
Judie, thanks for the information!
 I've often thought about ordering something and having it sent to General Delivery, but didn't know if the particular company I was ordering from would be willing to do that.  I haven't ever needed something so bad while we're on the road that I've ever bothered checking into it, but it's good to know that it can be done!

Linda & Earl 2004 23.5'  Red TK From Quartzsite, AZ
Linda Hylton